The Lease
The Lease

Author: Mathew Henderson

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1770563229

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Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) Shortlisted for the Gerard Lampert Award (2013) Inspired largely by the poet's experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfields, Mathew Henderson's The Lease explores masculinity and the roles morality, violence, and hard labor play in it. Equal parts character study, cultural documentary, and coming-of-age narrative, Henderson's poems make it clear that however we may try to stay apart from them, the stubborn and often unflattering realities of masculine culture persist, not just in isolated, dangerous environments like this, but in our very idea of what work is. No mark survives this place: you too will yield to unmemory. Give everything you are in three-day pieces. Watch the gypsy iron move, follow its commands. Tend the rusted steel like a shepherd. Shortlisted for the 2013 Gerald Lampert Award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets Mathew Henderson lives in Toronto, Ontario, writes about the prairies, and teaches at Humber College. The Lease is his first collection of poetry.

Notes from the Badlands
Notes from the Badlands

Author: Anna Martinez

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781401053192

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Anna Martinez is the Lenny Bruce of Poetry, a splendidly unique voice. This collection of poetry can be sipped like fine wine or guzzled down in one sitting. Either way, you ́re in for one helluva ride. Grounded in the senses, you can see, taste and smell the poems. Her approach to her uncomfortable subject matter is both lyrical and profane. She has a genius for powerful punch lines and black eyes. This collection of poetry, terribly human, is powerfully forthright, yet funny, gut-wrenching and heroic, with irreverence, shock value & defiance throughout. Her exposé of a battered inner being is deeply touching.

In the Badlands of Desire
In the Badlands of Desire

Author: Beckian Fritz Goldberg

Publisher: Cleveland St U Poetry Cntr

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781880834022

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Poetry. "The eucalyptus is rowing in the light of the streetlamp, the lake-water writes letters to St. Paul, and all the new gods are ambushing at an old saltlick... if Goldberg's brilliantly anthropomorphized and frightening badlands of desire and the tragic life of our suburbs, then here's a version of our extinction you'd better accept as published by fire on the pages of lament"--Norman Dubie.

On the Badlands of New Times
On the Badlands of New Times

Author: Paul Bamberger

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780999106266

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Poetry. Poems of varied form including prose poems, mostly influenced by 20th century thought, with beautifully modulated language, presenting brilliant insights and observations on the contemporary world, human impacts and conditions, hitting us with truths about the tragic absurdity of existence. "On THE BADLANDS OF NEW TIMES is a collection filled with powerful poetry which depicts some of the most painful truths about our world."--Keith Badowski "Some of the most intelligent and challenging poems I have ever read as an editor."--Robert Nazarine, founding editor, The American Journal of Poetry "Bamberger's poems have a moral acuity and deftness of execution rare in contemporary poetry."--Jim Rioux

Badland Trails
Badland Trails

Author: Richard Mousseau

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1927393221

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BADLAND TRAILS My pony's bridle lays across a hay bail. A black saddle straddles a fence post rail. From blurry eyes a tear drop may fall. Ghostly apparitions of a memory to recall. In days of youth mounting from fence rails, rider on pony would wander endless trails. My mount would forever faithfully guide, when crossing haunted badlands at a stride. Quotes; I am delighted by the romanticism of the poetry, making light of the hardships. I want to be a cowboy and live in the romantic era of open trails and endless plains. The cowboy life is humorous when looked at by Mr. Cheeks-Too-Soft.

Beauty of the Badlands
Beauty of the Badlands

Author: Cliff Fell

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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In part a homage to Bob Dylan, the classic American road trip is ironically paralleled to a visit to the underworld in this reverent and curious poetic journey across the United States. From the marginal clays and farms of the poet’s hometown to the mountains and deserts of the American southwest, this wistful and wise collection offers poems that are fiercely honest and contain a wide variety of images, from science to religion to American life since 9/11.